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Long-term correlations in hourly wind speed records in Pernambuco, Brazil
de Oliveira Santos, Maíra; Stosic, Tatijana; Stosic, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 4, pp. 1546-1552
We study the statistical properties of hourly wind speed time series detected at four weather stations in the state of …
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Detecting long-range correlations in fire sequences with Detrended fluctuation analysis
Zheng, Hongyang; Song, Weiguo; Satoh, Kohyu - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 4, pp. 837-842
fires may have connection with the weather fluctuations, which have significant effects on the ignition and have the similar …
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Weather-based estimation of wildfire risk
Ho, Joanne; Odening, Martin - 2009
-stage Heckman procedure. Using 37 years of spatial and temporal information on weather and fire records in Southern California, this …, offering a technique to predict and forecast wildfire occurrences based on weather information that is readily available at low … cost. -- biased sampling ; forest fires ; fire occurrence probabilities ; fire weather …
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Det nordiska skogsbruket : utmaningar i en framtid präglad av mer extremväder
Ekanger, Ivar; Brunvatne, Jon Olav; Busk, Helena; … - 2019
Internationell utblick -- Insatser för brandbekämpning -- Sammanfattning -- -- Lärdomar från sommarens bränder och förslag till nordiska samarbetsområden -- Internationell utblick – bränder utanför Norden -- Vädret i Norden -- Förord -- Skogsbränder i Norden sommaren 2018 --...
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The tourism fire exposure index for the European Union
Neger, Christoph; León-Cruz, José Francisco; … - In: Tourism management : research, policies, practice 103 (2024), pp. 1-11
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Dragon-kings: Mechanisms, statistical methods and empirical evidence
Sornette, Didier; Ouillon, Guy - Department of Management, Technology and Economics …
This introductory article presents the special Discussion and Debate volume 'From black swans to dragon-kings, is there life beyond power laws?'. We summarize and put in perspective the contributions into three main themes: (i) mechanisms for dragon-kings, (ii) detection of dragon-kings and...
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Urban air pollution, climate change and wildfires: the case study of an extended forest fire episode in northern Italy favoured by drought and warm weather conditions
Bo, Matteo; Mercalli, Luca; Pognant, Federica; Cat … - In: Energy reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 781-786
The aim of the paper is to describe the spread forest fire event occurred in the Italian Alps in 2017 under extremely drought conditions. In the study the root causes of wildfires and their direct relapses to the air quality of the Western Po valley and the urban centre of Torino have been...
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Exposures to climate change‘s physical risks in Chile
Cortina, Magdalena; Madeira, Carlos - 2023
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Social-media analysis for disaster prevention : forest fire in Artenara and Valleseco, Canary Islands
Zamarreño-Aramendia, Gorka; Cristòfol, F. J.; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 6 (2020) 4/169, pp. 1-18
This manuscript investigates the use of social media, specifically Twitter, during the forest fires in Artenara and Valleseco, Canary Islands, Spain, during summer 2019. The used methodology was big-data analysis through the Union Metrics and Twlets tools, as well as content analysis of posts...
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Insurance models and climate risk assessments in a historical context
Andersson, Lars Fredrik; Keskitalo, Eva Carina H. - In: Financial history review 23 (2016) 2, pp. 219-243
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